avid
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ævɪd/, /ævəd/
avid
- enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something
- I'm an avid reader.
- 1999, Larry Zuckerman, The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
- A blanket disdain for indigenous foods doesn't explain the delay, because Spain was avid to adopt a different New World root.
- 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3
- We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us.
- French: avide
- German: passioniert, begeistert, eifrig, leidenschaftlich, enthusiastisch
- Italian: avido
- Portuguese: ávido
- Russian: зая́длый
- Spanish: ávido
- German: sich verzehrend nach, sich sehnend, gierig
- Italian: avido
- Portuguese: ávido
- Russian: а́лчный
- Spanish: ávido
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